Illegal Immigration, Crimes, and Unemployment

Kaz Miyagiwa () and Yunyun Wan ()
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Kaz Miyagiwa: Department of Economics, Florida International University
Yunyun Wan: Department of Humanities and Regional Studies, Akita University, Akita, Japan

No 2408, Working Papers from Florida International University, Department of Economics

Abstract: A search-theoretic model of illegal immigration is presented to examine the effect of deportation and other policy measures on unemployment, crimes and immigration flows. It is found that deporting immigrants who commit crimes lowers the unemployment rate and causes an increase in native labor force. However, if hiring immigrants is more profitable than hiring natives, deportation increases the immigrant population and the number of crimes they commit. Anti-crime policy and higher minimum wages generate similar effects.

Keywords: illegal immigration; deportation; unemployment; crimes; minimum wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2024-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-inv, nep-lab, nep-law, nep-mig and nep-ure
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